A new app lets thousands of viewers control how a game is played on the video-game streaming platform Twitch. Developed by Overwolf, a gaming startup that creates PC game apps, Twitch CrowdPlay lets you anyone to host your very own "Twitch Plays" pla...

What would happen if your phone could hack any system? You could have any car, tons of cash and cause utter chaos anywhere you went. That's exactly what the makers of the video game Watch Dogs want you to do. In their prank video style trailer, a shopkeeper takes unsuspecting customers on a thrilling adventure through the street with their newly refurbished smartphones to try out a mystery app.

There are two unmistakable melodies from childhood -- the delightful sound of the ice cream truck approaching and the Super Mario Bros. theme song. The latter has aged like a fine wine, so naturally someone covered it using wine glasses.

Tetris fans leveled up -- and up and up -- this weekend. Hundreds of enthusiasts played the classic video game on the 29-story Cira Centre high-rise building in downtown Philadelphia Saturday, possibly setting a world record in the process. Colorful ...

On March 13, 2014, Ryan Green, one of the developers behind the heartbreaking adventure game That Dragon, Cancer, announced on Twitter that his 5-year old son Joel, who had been battling cancer since age 1, had passed away. My son Joel took his last ...

Life in Damascus, Syria's capital, has been quieter for about six months now, but Fadi Mujahid remembers days not so long ago when he couldn't even make it to work -- the bombs were too close. Sometimes, guards at the building where he worked would c...

A company called Tactical Haptics wants to give video games a sense of touch in a way that could put rumble packs to shame. Founder and CEO William Provancher told Mashable that his company has built a virtual reality device called Reactive Grip, a c...

The events leading up to Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution are a tangled tale of chaos and mass protests that eventually led to political change. Now, a video game aims, in a sense, to recreate this complex history through entertainment. The three-seaso...

It's been seven years since Sony unveiled the PlayStation 3 to the world, but the day has finally come for Sony's next-gen gaming console: the PlayStation 4. We've had our hands on the PS4 for a little while, so we've been able to test it and share o...

Six students at De Montfort University in the United Kingdom won a video game design competition called "Off the Map" earlier this month with their 3D, digital recreation of London in the years just before the city's Great Fire. University teams that...

Warcraft, the long-anticipated movie based on Blizzard Entertainment's wildly popular World of Warcraft video game franchise, finally has another release date: Dec. 18, 2015. Production company Legendary Pictures described the film on Facebook this w...

Recharge, a video game created by rock group Linkin Park and Kuuluu Interactive Entertainment, aims to teach players about the dangers of a world without natural resources and the importance of sustainable energy. The game is set in the "not-too-dist...

Created by Japanese researchers at the Tokyo University of Technology, The Light Shooter is an archery game that uses a real bow to hit digital targets. The first person shooting game has an actual Japanese bow as the interface. Real equipment teache...

Today is National Video GameDay. To celebrate, enjoy a game on your Wii or Xbox Kinect, but remember to practice basic video game safety. Many have argued that video games are dangerous. The GIFs below prove that poing. Keep a safe distance between y...

Getting older often means mental acuity declines. Some studies have pointed to the idea that you can exercise the brain to keep the mind sharp. But it’s been hard to pin down what’s happening and how real the effect is. A team at the University of Ca...

More often than not, video game developers cast their female characters as beautiful damsels in distress who need to be saved by their games' male heroes. In the latest installment of pop culture critic and Feminist Frequency creator Anita Sarkeesian...

Warning: Videos include violent imagery. Viewer discretion is advised. What happens when your favorite childhood movie meets one of the most controversial video games of our generation? Bittersweet destruction. An online user created a character mod ...

Creaky sounds and strange shadows are enough to unsettle most adults, but they're especially frightening for children, who cope with overactive imaginations. This is the creative premise of Among the Sleep, a first-person horror-themed video game in ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa have been studying ways to reverse the effects of aging on mental agility. Their answer? Play a video game. Not just any game, mind you. They developed a game of their own, a simple visual puzzle game called Road...

What happens when you combine a hit television drama and your favorite childhood building blocks into a video game? LEGO Breaking Bad: The Video Game. Animator Brian Anderson merged two beloved forms of entertainment, and displayed the results in an ...

Gamers who miss the old-school feel of joysticks and buttons will rejoice in a new device that connects arcade controls to modern video-game consoles. Kade is an open-source arcade interface that supports systems such as Playstation, PS2, PS3 and the...

Remember when you'd get home from school on Friday afternoon, switch on your favorite video game and the next thing you know it's Sunday night? Oh, to be young again. Well, a group of seven "adults" in the U.K. seem to have uncovered a compelling rea...

Obsidian Entertainment's new fantasy role-playing game franchise is now the most-funded video game on Kickstarter. As of this writing, Project Eternity has raised $3,568,295 with more than eight hours to go. That’s not even counting the money the dev...

There are two things that make optometrist and neuroscientist Lotfi Merabet's new computer game unusual: The various rooms and corridors in the game exactly mirror a real place, and players aren't able to navigate by looking at graphics on-screen. In...

Anyone that has spent a considerable amount of time playing Final Fantasy titles likely knows that the numbering of the franchise was jumbled outside of Japan during the NES and SNES days. This is mostly due to the fact that they skipped from Final F...

Special editions of video games have been serious business in Japan for decades, often coming with soundtracks, art books, models, and other unique collectibles, and sometimes selling for hundreds of dollars. For its latest Resident Evil game, Capcom...

Pop quiz time! There are 20 popular video game-themed planets represented in this fun animated video. Can you name all of them? Winners get ultimate gamer bragging rights. If you're really stuck, the video's creator, Tim Hijlkema, has made a cheat sh...

You couldn’t go anywhere in the past few weeks without hearing about The Hunger Games. From non-stop TV ads to countless articles to seemingly everyone you know chatting about it, anticipation for The Hunger Games movie hit epic proportions. It was l...

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